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We need to be those who are loving the Lord with the first love so that we may enjoy Christ and have His present presence today. The way for us to enjoy the Lord is to love Him and to love one another; we need to be flooded with the love of Christ so […]
Giving Christ the Preeminence in our Love by Maintaining our First Love for the Lord
For Christ to be have preeminence in us and for Him to have the first place in our personal universe, Christ should have the preeminence in our love (Rev. 2:4). Actually, whenever we do not have a fervent, burning love for the Lord, we enter into degradation and desolation, but whenever we exercise our heart […]
Paying the Price to Buy the Spirit as the Oil in our Vessel by the Word and Prayer
Every day we need to be watchful by paying the price to buy the Spirit as the golden oil so that we may supply the churches with the Spirit for the testimony of Jesus and be rewarded by the Lord to participate in the marriage dinner of the Lamb. Our urgent need today is to […]
Loving the Lord and being Washed by His Living Word to be the Counterpart of Christ
This week we are enjoying one of the most wonderful statuses of the church – the church as the counterpart of Christ, the bride of Christ; the work in the Lord’s recovery is His genuine work to prepare His bride. A counterpart is one that closely resembles another; it is one that has the same […]
Enjoying Christ as our Love, Life, and Light to keep the Testimony of Jesus
In the Lord’s epistle to the church in Ephesus there are four main points – love (loving the Lord with the first love), life (enjoying Christ as the tree of life), light (shining as the Lord’s testimony), and the lampstand (bearing the Lord’s testimony); love, life, light, and the lampstand are four crucial words in […]
Loving the Lord with the First Love, Being His Testimony, and Functioning as Priests
May we be those who are loving the Lord with the first and best love, those who are His testimony on earth today, and who function as priests in the church life! In His epistle to the first church, the church in Ephesus, in Rev. 2, the Lord appreciates some of the things she has, […]
Repenting and Doing the First Works – the Works Motivated by our Love for the Lord
The Lord’s word to the church in Ephesus in Rev. 2:1-7 is a warning to us all; after He acknowledged the many works, labor, endurance, and suffering that the church in Ephesus had, the Lord said He has one thing against her, that she has lost her first love, and therefore she had to repent, […]